Italic

The italic icon represents an italic text style often used in typography and writing. This icon is part of the Octicons library created by GitHub, which provides a set of visual elements for developers to use in their applications.

In writing and editing, italic text is used to add emphasis or style to a piece of text. The italic icon is used to represent this functionality in various text editors and writing tools, such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

From a UX perspective, the italic icon communicates the ability to apply an italic style to a piece of text. It helps users understand that they can use this feature to add emphasis or style to their text.

Italic is one of 901 icons in Octicons, made by GitHub and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 6 × 16 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds ItalicIcon to components/icons/octicon-italic.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed ItalicIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Italic icon, or any of 901 Octicons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 6 × 16 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Italic", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ItalicIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ItalicIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: MIT only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Octicons, GitHub and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

8 other libraries draw an icon called Italic. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are typography, text, style, writing, formatting and editor. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Italic in another set.

Octicons draws many icons in several styles: Fill next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Italic's siblings in it.